The Emigration Playlist - 64 years of songs: #16 Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground (1967)
' You were into the Velvets aged 5?! Impressive', I hear you say. And much as I'd love to claim that I was enjoying Lou Reed singing about Heroin and Waiting for the Man on the school bus to my Singapore kindergarten (though, to be honest, perhaps that's not a great mental image), it obviously wasn't so. I can say that I was probably first hearing Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues and A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum and A Day in the Life by The Beatles from Sgt. Peppers around then (and for many years after) because they all came out in 1967 and were magnificent songs and my teenage brother was probably playing them on his suitcase-shaped portable record player when he flew out from boarding school in the UK. Probably . But to be honest I can't remember. So - full disclosure - I didn't really come across this song until 1993, at which point I recognised it as a work of genius. Like one other song, from 1984 (I can tell you - it's...